“Total 20 victims were brought to the hospital. Four are dead, one of them a woman. Other 16 patients, six of them women, are stable,” informed the hospital administration.

Fire personnel rescued the people trapped on the top floor of the building with the help of crane.

The fire brigade control room received a message about the blaze at 8.32 am and rushed to the spot. By then residents were trapped on the building’s staircases following disseminating smoke from the raging fire, an official said.